Australian W3C Office
Australian W3C Office Welcome to the March 2004 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on regional events, XML, Web Services, Libwww and WAI.
# Free Semantic Web Seminar
The free Semantic Web presentation to be held in Adelaide on Tuesday 16th March has been postponed until further notice.
# Free Seminars Brisbane and Canberra
W3C Team Member, Dr Max Froumentin, will be visiting Australia in May to present two free seminars (Brisbane and Canberra) on W3C’s Voice Browser. W3C Team Member, Dr Dean Jackson, will immediate follow Max presentation in Canberra with a talk on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). The Canberra presentations will be held at the National Library. Further details on these events will be available in future newsletters and on the Australian W3C Office’s webpage as they are confirmed.
This project is funded under the Commonwealth Government's Innovation Access Program. An initiative of Backing Australia's Ability, the Commonwealth Government's commitment to Innovation. The event is also supported by DSTC Pty Ltd and the National Library.
Voice Browser Activity: http://www.w3.org/Voice/
SVG Homepage: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
Australian W3C Events: http://w3c.dstc.edu.au/eventsOz.html
The National Library of Australia: http://www.nla.gov.au/
The Information Industries Bureau: http://www.iib.qld.gov.au/
# AusWeb04 conference - Australia's national Web conference
This year the conference series celebrates its 10th year. AusWeb04 will be held at the Nara Sea World Resort on the Gold Coast, Queensland, from 3rd to 7th July. The program consists of keynote addresses by national and international speakers, referred paper tracks, a poster session and pre and post conference tutorial and workshop sessions on a wide range of topics. Join delegates from all over and Australia and overseas for a special 10th anniversary conference.
Conference Home Page: http://ausweb.scu.edu.au
Call for Papers and Posters: http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw04/papers/index.html
Online Registration and Payment: https://www.scupayments.com/conf/ausweb04/
#Web and Online Accessibility Workshops
National Information and Library Service (NILS) is running "Web and Online Accessibility Workshops" in Canberra 30 and 31 March and in Sydney on 7 April 2004. These workshops introduce accessibility issues in terms of Australian policy contexts and internationally recognised requirements. (NILS is a joint venture of Vision Australia Foundation, Royal Blind Society of NSW and the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind).
Workshop info: http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/webaccessibility/workshops/
W3C is pleased to announce the launch of phase two of the Semantic Web Activity. The W3C Membership approved two new Working Groups, the Best Practices and Deployment and RDF Data Access. They join the existing RDF Core and Web Ontology Working Groups and the Semantic Web Interest Group and Coordination Group. Participation is open to W3C Members. A continuation of the World Wide Web, the Semantic Web gives data precise meaning, allowing people and computers to cooperate fully.
Best Practices and Deployment: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/
RDF Data Access: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/
RDF Core: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/
Web Ontology: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/
Interest Group: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/
W3C Members: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
Semantic Web Homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
The Web Services Choreography Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of Web Services Choreography Requirements. The group is defining a language based on WSDL 2.0 used to coordinate interactions among Web services and their users.
Web Services Choreography Requirements: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-ws-chor-reqs-20040311/
WSDL 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20/
Web Services Homepage: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a Working Draft for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. Version 2.0 widens the range of technologies covered and simplifies wording. Following WCAG checkpoints makes Web content accessible to people with disabilities and to users of a variety of Web-enabled devices.
Guidelines 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-WCAG20-20040311/
WAI homepage: http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Registration is open for the 25th Internationalization and Unicode Conference to be held March 31-April 2 in Washington DC, USA. Come and meet W3C Team and Internationalization Working Group participants who are presenting. The event is the premier technical conference worldwide for software and Web internationalization.
Registration: http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc25/register.html
Conference: http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc25/index.html
Unicode: http://www.unicode.org/
W3C Internationalisation Activity: http://www.w3.org/International/
The XML Schema Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of XML Schema: Component Designators. The document defines a scheme for identifying the XML Schema components specified by the XML Schema Recommendation Part 1 and Part 2.
XML Schema: Component Designators: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xmlschema-ref-20040309/
Part 1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xmlschema-ref-20040309/
Part 2: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/
XML Activity: http://www.w3.org/XML/
The third annual SVG Open Conference and Exhibition will be held 7-10 September in Tokyo, Japan. Co-sponsored by W3C and hosted by Keio University, the SVG Open conference series is the premier forum for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) developers to share ideas, examples and implementations. Proposals are welcome through 16 April for course outlines and abstracts for papers. Opportunities are open now for booth exhibits and conference sponsorships. The W3C SVG Working Group and W3C's Chris Lilley will participate.
Conference: http://www.svgopen.org/
SVG Homepage: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
During September 2003, W3C posed questions to the Membership and the public
about the future of Libwww. Libwww is a free, highly modular client side
Web API written in C for Unix and Windows. Libwww will remain free software
and its development will be handed over to the Open Source/Free Software
community. If you should have questions, please contact José
Kahan. For more information please refer to the survey results
Libwww: http://www.w3.org/Library/
Survey Results: http://www.w3.org/2003/11/04-futlibwwwresults.html
W3C released Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1 and Namespaces in XML 1.1 as Recommendations. XML 1.1 addresses Unicode, control character, and line ending issues. Namespaces 1.1 incorporates errata corrections and provides a mechanism to undeclare prefixes.
XML 1.1: http://www.w3c.org/TR/2004/REC-xml11-20040204/
Namespaces: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-names11-20040204/
W3C announced the release of the XML Information Set, Second Edition (Infoset) as a Recommendation. The document updates the Infoset to cover XML 1.1 and Namespaces 1.1, clarifies the consequences of certain kinds of invalidity, and corrects typographical errors. The Infoset defines a set of eleven types of information items in XML documents.
XML Information Set (2nd ed): http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-infoset-20040204/
XML Homepage: http://www.w3c.org/XML/
W3C released the Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 Third Edition as a Recommendation. The third edition is not a new version of XML. It brings the XML 1.0 Recommendation up to date with second edition errata, and clarifies its use of RFC 2119 key words like must, should and may.
XML 1.0 (3rd ed): http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/
Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 8.3 includes new features and enhancements for tables, CSS, MathML and images and the Amaya user interface. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux and Windows, and Debian and RPM packages. Source code is available.
Amaya Homepage: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
Annotea Homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/
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